RAID 1 Mirror Error with Two WD 500GB Drives

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I have Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit installed on a WD 500GB drive (WD5000BEVT-22ZAT0) that was partitioned automatically by Windows as 100MB System Reserved and 465.66GB drive C. There is also an unallocated second WD 500GB drive (WD5000BPVT-22HXZT1) that I want to use for RAID 1 to mirror the first drive but I get an error message stating “All disks holding extents for a given volume must have the same sector size, and the sector size must be valid.” I uninstalled Windows patch KB-982018 but I still get the same error message. Could you please let me know how to resolve this? Thanks.

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Hi your  WD5000BEVT has a 512 sector size and the 5000BPVT is a advanced format drive with 4k sector size you can not change it. You would need another BEVT model as all the BPVT are the advanced format.

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Thanks for the reply. Can I format the BPVT model (first drive) to a 512 sector size? Alternatively, can I format the BEVT model (second drive) to a 4k sector size drive and reinstall Windows 7?

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Hi no you cant change the sector size even with formating

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Is there any way to set up RAID 1 mirror for this configuration?

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Hi no you can’t mix drives on raid just wont work. Even something like a bigger cache on one drive will mess it up.